iFixit took a microscope to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional’s OLED microdisplays to disclose their true lively decision.
We highlighted yesterday how iFixit’s Imaginative and prescient Professional teardown gave a captivating take a look at its intricate design and revealed the secrets and techniques of EyeSight.
As we speak iFixit launched a component 2 the place they used a digital microscope to estimate the lively decision of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Imaginative and prescient Professional is the primary headset to launch with near-4K OLED microdisplays, providing an unprecedented pixel density. Apparently although, iFixit discovered that some pixels on the perimeters are completely off, so the lively decision of the lit space is decrease than the bodily decision.
iFixit measured the dimensions of every pixel at simply 7.5μm, the dimensions of a human pink blood cell. iFixit says this implies you’ll be able to match 54 Imaginative and prescient Professional pixels into the house of a single iPhone 15 Professional Max pixel, which is actually exceptional.
iFixit then measured the dimensions of the lit space of the show as 27.5mm vast by 24mm excessive, which means it is 1.41 inch diagonal and has a facet ratio of roughly 5:4.
Headset | Show Tech | Decision Per Eye |
Oculus Rift & HTC Vive (2016) |
OLED | 1080×1200 (PenTile) |
Valve Index (2019) |
LCD | 1440×1600 |
Meta Quest 2 (2020) |
LCD | ~1680×1870 (est) |
Meta Quest 3 (2023) |
LCD | 2064×2208 |
Bigscreen Past (2023) |
Micro-OLED | 2560×2560 |
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional (2024) |
Micro-OLED | 3660×3200 |
Dividing the width and top of the show by the pixel dimension provides an lively Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional decision of 3660×3200 per eye.
Nonetheless, the corners of the show are additionally reduce off. When summing the decision and subtracting the reduce corners, throughout the 2 shows iFixit got here up with a complete of 23.4 million pixels mixed, which carefully matches Apple’s official assertion that Imaginative and prescient Professional has 23 million pixels.
We advocate you watch the total video for a take a look at iFixit’s actual course of, in addition to their investigation of the internals of the battery and logic board.